To have or to be? Fromm, Erich

By:

Fromm, Erich

Publication details: Bloomsbury Publishing 2015 LondonDescription: xix, 190 pISBN:

9781780936802

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DDC classification:

128 F7T6

Summary: To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change. (http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/to-have-or-to-be-9781780936802/)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad	Non-fiction	128 F7T6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		191784

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Table of Contents:

Part 1: Understanding the Difference between Having and Being

I. A First Glance
II. Having and Being in Daily Experience
III. Having and Being in the Old and New Testaments and in the Writings of Master Eckhart

Part 2: Analyzing the Fundamental Differences between the Two Modes of Existence

IV. What Is the Having Mode?
V. What Is the Being Mode?
VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being

Part 3: The New Man and the New Society

VII. Religion, Character, and Society
VIII. Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man
IX. Features of the New Society

To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.

(http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/to-have-or-to-be-9781780936802/)

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